4 Rochester

For those who watch birds avidly, FOY stands for First-of-Year. My first Great Blue Heron of the year, seen on a bike ride on the Erie Canal, near Lock 33. Every Spring, we go out to a special spot in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. If you go at the right time, you'll hear a chorus of frogs...

(Cross-posted at RocBike) --Biking with others makes you feel more empowered on the road and gets you more respect from drivers. Here's Team RocBike (and friend Liz Henderson) after our Saturday morning ride to Rochester's Public Market. --Wind Chill isn't just a stat that the TV meteorologists...

turned 30 today. Happy Birthday, Anna! (I loved that the colors of the gift wrap were the same as the last cherry tomatoes.) Anna and I worked together in a women's center and got to go to a women's march in Washington, D.C., back in 2004. We worked closely together to bring Eve Ensler's...

My hometown is the kind of place… --where the self-professed “only Democrat in town” describes the town as stuck in time, “like a bug in amber” --where his wife says, “That’s what I like about this town” These painted figures on a building on Main Street, faded but still there, for as long as I can remember...

So...in case you haven't noticed (and why not??)...I'm half way to two of my three goals. I have 21 projects (okay, that's not quite half, but close enough!) and many more under progress. Clapotis. Calla Coasters. Signs of fall-inspired socks and cross-stitch. The projects have slowed down...

Sort of...I consider Rochester my home, but my formative years were spent in Rushville, Indiana. (The picture is a view from the air.) According to Wikipedia, there were 5,595 people in Rushville as of the 2000 census. When I left town (1981), there were about 7,000 people there. Some other facts of...

Some people are sneaky...like Jason ...a little while ago, he asked me if I would write a "guest essay" for his fairly new site, RocBike. Now, this was shortly after I started my own little blog here, and I was heady with the prospect of being "published" at not one, but two (!) websites...

Oh, I miss the knitting time...I could blame it on the graduate work, but to be honest, it's more like the gardening/preserving/sewing/assorted other creations that are really getting in the way. As long as I'm making something, though, it's all good. I started this baby sweater last August...